A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts directories. This draft is a work item of the BGP Enabled Services Working Group of the IETF. Title : MVPN: Using Bidirectional P-Tunnels Authors : Eric C. Rosen IJsbrand Wijnands Yiqun Cai Arjen Boers Filename : draft-ietf-bess-mvpn-bidir-02.txt Pages : 33 Date : 2015-01-19 Abstract: A set of prior RFCs specify procedures for supporting multicast in BGP/MPLS IP VPNs. These procedures allow customer multicast data to travel across a service provider's backbone network through a set of multicast tunnels. The tunnels are advertised in certain BGP multicast "auto-discovery" routes, by means of a BGP attribute known as the "Provider Multicast Service Interface (PMSI) Tunnel attribute". Encodings have been defined that allow the PMSI Tunnel attribute to identify bidirectional (multipoint-to-multipoint) multicast distribution trees. However, the prior RFCs do not provide all the necessary procedures for using bidirectional tunnels to support multicast VPNs. This document updates RFCs 6513, 6514 and 6625 by specifying those procedures. In particular, it specifies the procedures for assigning customer multicast flows (unidirectional or bidirectional) to specific bidirectional tunnels in the provider backbone, for advertising such assignments, and for determining which flows have been assigned to which tunnels. The IETF datatracker status page for this draft is: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-bess-mvpn-bidir/ There's also a htmlized version available at: http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-bess-mvpn-bidir-02 A diff from the previous version is available at: http://www.ietf.org/rfcdiff?url2=draft-ietf-bess-mvpn-bidir-02 Please note that it may take a couple of minutes from the time of submission until the htmlized version and diff are available at tools.ietf.org. Internet-Drafts are also available by anonymous FTP at: ftp://ftp.ietf.org/internet-drafts/ _______________________________________________ I-D-Announce mailing list I-D-Announce@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/i-d-announce Internet-Draft directories: http://www.ietf.org/shadow.html or ftp://ftp.ietf.org/ietf/1shadow-sites.txt